UK sees record job creation but inflation squeezes wages
- 18-Jan-2022
UK employers hired a record number of staff last month and labour shortages deepened – increasing the chance that the Bank of England will raise interest rates again next month – but pay was squeezed by rapidly rising inflation. Tuesday’s data suggests the surge in cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in December did […]
UK jobs market hits full throttle as lockdown eases
- 07-May-2021
Permanent staff placements grew at the fastest rate since October 1997
Some 129,000 Saudi expats left its labour market in 2020
- 05-Apr-2021
In the same span, about 74,000 Saudis have joined the job market suggesting localization of the jobs as numbers of foreign workforce depletes
‘We have to align our education with job market’: Shafqat Mehmood
- 19-Sep-2019
He said there were hundreds of PhDs who had no jobs which indicated to the fact that something was seriously wrong with the planning.
LinkedIn opens up data to researchers to learn about the job market
- 22-Aug-2018
LOS ANGELES: LinkedIn will open up its data to academic researchers for the purpose of better understanding the labor market and the economy. The company is inviting academics to submit study proposals that in some way involve analytics, economics or artificial intelligence and it will select projects early next year. If chosen, researchers will then […]
eBay to cut 2,400 jobs
- 22-Jan-2015
NEW YORK: Online retail giant eBay will slash 2,400 jobs -- seven percent of its workforce -- in the current quarter as it restructures and prepares to spin off its PayPal finance unit, it said Wednesday.